Forum Overview :: Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark :: Creator blames Let's Play videos for poor sales

[quote name="skip"]http://www.thatdragoncancer.com/thatdragoncancer/2016/3/24/on-lets-plays [quote]However, for a short, relatively linear experience like ours, for millions of viewers, Let’s Play recordings of our content satisfy their interest and they never go on to interact with the game in the personal way that we intended for it to be experienced. If you compare the millions of views of the entirety of our game on YouTube to our sales as estimated on SteamSpy, you can hopefully see the disparity. We have seen many people post our entire game on YouTube with little to no commentary.[/quote] He's careful to be gracious but really? He can't think of any other reason that gamers might not be interested in playing a game about a child dying of cancer? LucasArts games are still bought and you can watch Grim Fandango on YouTube played with some nasal jackass making boner jokes. Basically, if your first thought on hearing a game is "enh, I'll just watch the LP" you were never going to buy the game. If so much of the experience of your game can be replicated by LP videos, you might want to rethink your gameplay. At least adventure games have the promise of a good plot (sometimes). There's no spoilers for what happened to your kid.[/quote]